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gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:

>For what it is worth:

>We just got our Solbourne upgraded to a Series 5 CPU, using the new
>(33MHz?) Cypres CMOS sparc chip. 

>Solbourne MP/OS 4.0B (which is SunOs 4.0.1 + a bit), standard
>compiler.  Runnung full multi user, some background stuff happening.
>No other CPU bound job. dhrystone.c, vers C/1.1, 12/01/84

>Check this out:
>	leo# cc -O -DREG=register dhrystone.c -o dryRO
>	leo# ./dryRO
>	Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 13
>	This machine benchmarks at 36275 dhrystones/second

>Which is better than the fastest machine listed: the IBM3090/200.

>Wowzers!  I though it felt faster than my 3/80!

>Greg.
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	Are you sure this is right?  I get *70,093* dhrystones/second
	on my 33 MHz 88100 (Motorola model 8612) with the Diab
	Data dcc88 (ver. 2.34) compiler.  I get around 42k dhrystones/sec
	with my 20 MHz 88100 machine.  And this is dhrystone 2.1.

	The Solbourne compiler must be broken!


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